A Guide to Gen AI / LLM Vibecoding for Expert Programmers

August 22 2025 in Programming, Science | Tags: , , , | Author: Christopher Rackauckas

I get it, you’re too good to vibe code. You’re a senior developer who has been doing this for 20 years and knows the system like the back of your hand. Or maybe you’re the star individual contributor who is the only person who can ever figure out how to solve the hard problems. Or maybe you’re the professor who created the entire subject of the algorithms you’re implementing. I don’t know you, but I do know that you think you’re too good to vibe code. And guess what, you’re absolutely and totally wrong.

Facetious? Maybe… but I will go even further.

No, you’re not too good to vibe code. In fact, you’re the only person who should be vibe coding.

I would have thought this statement was crazy just a month ago because this label of “expert” coder also applies to me. … READ MORE

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ChatGPT performs better on Julia than Python (and R) for Large Language Model (LLM) Code Generation. Why?

November 19 2023 in Julia, Programming | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Author: Christopher Rackauckas

Machine learning is all about examples. The more data you have, the better it should perform, right? With the rise of ChatGPT and Large Language Models (LLMs) as a code helping tool, it was thus just an assumption that the most popular languages like Python would likely be the best for LLMs. But because of the increased productivity, I tend to use a lot of Julia, a language with an estimated user-base of around a million programmers. For this reason, people have often asked me how it fairs with ChatGPT, Github Copilot, etc., and so I checked out those pieces and… was stunned. It’s really good. It seemed better than Python actually?

The data is in: Julia does well with ChatGPT

This question was recently put to the test by a researcher named Alessio Buscemi in A Comparative Study … READ MORE

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